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Have we not been told that somewhere in the world there is another human being who looks exactly like us but lives a different reality than we do? Have we not been told that each of us has a darker side?It should be easy to believe in since Buddhism, science fiction, and quantum physics all suggest that we are living in multiple timelines, each a result of different causes and effects.

The doppelgänger is German for ‘double walker.’ The ‘double’ is usually evil and the ‘other half’ often reflects the baser instincts of the same individual. In English literature, Robert Louis Stevenson’s Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is the classic example of the type, the one that most people would think of first, although Dickens created another instance: Charles Darnay and Sidney Carton in A Tale of Two Cities. Dostoyevsky rendered the Russian version, “dvoynik,” in…